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Book 3

Book 3 in which Millie meets some photons at the playground is a playful description of the interaction between electrons and photons. At first, Millie is confused by the game that the particles play, but after learning about energy levels, quantisation and in particular the law of conservation of...…
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Book 3

Book 6

Book 6 in which Millie meets two neutrinos and watches them race to the Moon and back is about the elementary particles called neutrinos. Neutrinos are everywhere, but are very hard to detect because they don’t interact much with the other particles. Their mass is extremely small, they have no cha...…
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Book 6

Book 8

Book 8 in which Millie wants to give the particles a sleeping lesson Millie micro nano pico Book 8 is for all the children who asked Millie to find out more about the inhabitants of Bosonville and Fermioncity. Millie knows that photons are bosons and electrons are fermions. In this adventure, she d...…
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Book 8

Book 9

Book 9 in which Millie goes inside a red laser beam is about the basic principles of lasers. Millie watches how electrons and red photons cooperate to generate a laser beam. At first, she is intrigued by the process of optical pumping. Later, she realises its utility, when she understands the dif...…
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Book 9

Book 10

Millie micro nano pico Book 10 in which Millie fights for the liberation of infrared photons. At the beginning of this adventure, Millie asks the electrons to explain the nature of a rainbow. This allows her to learn that photons have a double nature: they are both particles and waves, just like el...…
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Book 10